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AMENDMENT   OF   MR.    CHILTON   TO   BiLL   OF  MR. 

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To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  provide  for  the  filling  up  of  existing 

companies,    squadrons,  battalions,  and  regiments,  and  to 

increase  the  Provisional  Army  of  the  Confederate  States. 

1.         Section  1 .   The  Congress  of  the  Confer! crate  States  of 

2  America  do  enact,   That    when   the   President   shall   con- 

3  sider  an  increase  of  the   forces  in  the   field   necessary  to 

4  the  maintenance  of  public  liberty  and  security,  and  the 

5  successfully   conducting  of  the   pending  war,  he  shall  be 

6  authorized  to  call   for  the  raising  of  as  many   additional 

7  troops   from   time  to  time,  as  in  his   opinion   the    public 

8  exigency  may  require. 

1  Si:r.  2.  The  calls  shall  be  made  upon  the  Governors  of 

2  the  respective  States  of  this  Confederacy  for  the  propor- 

3  tion  which   each  should   furnish,  having  reference  to  the 

4  number  of  i'vee   white   male   citizens  of  said   States   not 
mgaged  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  not 


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6  exempt  by  the  laws  of  the  Confederate  States  from  mill- 

7  tary   duty,    between  the    ages  of  35  and  45  years  ;  said 
S  calls  shall  designate  how  many  of  said  troops  are  wanted 

9  to  fill  up  the   companies,    squadrons,    battalions   or  legi- 

10  ments  from  said  State,  how  many  are  wanted  as  organized 

]  1  companies,   squadrons,  battalions  or  regiments,  and  how 

12  many  to  be  held  as  a  reserve  in  camps  of  instruction  or 

13  otherwise  as  the  call  may  prescribe  ;  and  a  period  shall 

14  be  fixed  in  each  call  within  which  the  Governors  respec- 

15  lively  are  requested  to  furnish  said  troops,  which  shall 
1G  not  be  less  than  thirty  days  from  the  date  of  said  call, 
IT  within  which  period  any  person  subject  to  perform  mili- 

18  tary  duty  in  said  State  may  volunteer  and  join  any  com- 

19  pany  from  said  State  for  the  filling  up  of  which  the  call 

20  may  in  part  have  been  made,  but  said  company  shall  not 

21  by   volunteers  be  increased   beyond   its  maximum   legal 

22  number,  and  the  persons  so  volunteering  shall  be  counted 

23  as  part  of  the   quota  to  be  furnished   hy  said  State,   and 

24  shall  conform  to  rules  to  be  prescribed  by  the  War  l)e- 

25  partment  for  ascertaining  the  number  so  volunteering. 

1  Sec.  3.  If  the  Governor's  respectively,  shall  consent  to 

2  raise  the  troops  aforesaid,  they  may  resort  to  enrolment, 


3  drafting,  or  in  any  other  manner  deemed  more  efficient,  and 

4  which  may  be  prescribed  by  the  laws   of  said  State,  for 
•5  the   raising  of  the  same  ;   and  in  raising  such  troops,  it 

6  shall  be  competent  for  the   Governor's  respectively,  to 

7  divide  the  persons  liable  to  military  duty  into  classes  from 

5  which  to  furnish  the  quota  desire],  according  as  they  may 
9  consider  shall  best  subserve  the  wants   and   interests   of 

1.0  their  States  respectively.  Should  any  Governor  de- 
ll cline  to  raise  said  troops,  or  having  consented  to 
L2  do  so,  fail  to  raise  them  within  the  time  specified  in  the 
1.3  President's  call,  then  the  President  shall  be  authorized 
J  4  and  required  to  cause  to  be   enrolled  all  the  white  male 

15  citizens  of  said  State,  not  legally  exempt  from  military 

16  service  by  the  laws  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  who 
1  7  shall  not  then  be  in  the  service  of  said  Confederate  States, 
1$  between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-iive  years,  in  the 

19  same  manner  as  is  prescribed  by  An  Act  entitled  "  An 

20  Act  further  to  provide  for  the  public  defence,"  approved 

21  April  16th,  1862,  and  under  such  rules  and  regulations 

22  as  he  may  prescribe,  may  proceed  to  select  by  lot  from 

23  among  the  whole  number,  the  quota  called  for  from  such 

24  State,  and  the  remainder  may  return  to  theii  homes,  but 


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25  subject  to  return  to  the  rani])  of  instruction  upou  there- 

26  quirenient  of  the  President  :     Provided^  That  for  good 

27  cau.se  the  time   allowed  to  any  of  the  Executives  of  the 

28  States  may  be  extended  for  raising  their  respective  quotas 

29  by   the   President:    Provided,  further.    That  when    said 

30  troops  shall  be  raised  in  any  State  by  order  of  the  IVes- 

31  ident  and  not  by  the  Governor,  persons  subject  to   mili- 

32  tary  duty  shall,  any  time  before  their  enrolment,  have  the 

33  privilege  oi'  volunteering  in  the  same  manner  and  under 

34  like  restrictions,  as  if  said  quotas  had  been  furnished  by 

35  the  Governor  of  said  State. 

1  Sec.  4.  The  troops  thus  raised   shall   serve   for  three 

2  years  or  during  the  present  war,  if  it  should   be   sooner 

3  ended,  and  shall  not  be  discharged  by  reason  of  having 
J  passed  the  age  of  forty-five  years  before  such  term  of 
5  service  expires. 

1  Sec.  o.  The  troops  which  may  be  called  for  in  organ- 

2  ized  bodies,  and  which  the  Governors  respectively  may 
'6  furnish,  shall  be  officered  in  the  first  instance  by  the  au- 

4  thority  of  the  State,   but  the  filling  of  vacancies  there - 

5  after  shall  be  according  to  the  laws  of  the  Confederate 

6  States. 


1  Sec.  0.  'That  the  persons  brought  into  military  service 

2  by  this  act  shall  be  assigned  to  any  company  new  in  the 

3  service  of  the  Confederate  States  which  they  may  prefer 
■1  to  join,  subject  to  such  regulations  as  the  Secretary  of 
•">  War  may  establish,    to  secure   the   filling  up  of  existing 

6  companies,  squadrons,  battalions   or   regiments  from  the 

7  respective  States  :  Provided,  That  the  right  of  volun- 
S  teering  in,  or  of  being  assigned    to,  any  company,  shall 

0  not  interfere  with  the  objects  of  this  act,  or  .produce  in- 
10  equality  or  confusion  in  the  different  arms  of  the  service. 

1  Sec.  7.  That   the   powers  hereby   conferred   upon  the 

2  President  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  exist  only  dur- 

3  ing  the  present  war.  and  the   provisions  of  this  bill  shall 

4  be  applicable  whenever,  pending  this  war.  calls  as  afore- 

5  said  shall  be  made. 


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